Lynda van Kempen

The Vincent Community Board is being asked to help bail out the Alexandra Blossom Festival, which has sustained three consecutive years of significant losses.

Forty years after first volunteering to help in the sheep yards at the Central Otago A and P Association show, the organisation's newest life member was still in the yards working with sheep at Saturday's show.

A DC-3 airliner may soon be a regular visitor at the Idaburn airstrip and Alexandra Airport if a joint venture between two companies takes off.

New Zealand developed it, exported it and then sold some of it to overseas growers so they could sell it back to us.

Children toasting marshmallows are believed to be responsible for a grass fire in a Ranfurly reserve on Wednesday night.

The Government is keeping a close eye on parched properties in Central Otago and North Otago in the wake of drought assistance being offered to the Northland region.

Contact Energy reports prepared as a condition of resource consents to raise Lake Roxburgh and to operate the Roxburgh and Clyde hydro dams should be studied by experts, the Clutha Management Committee believes.

Earnscleugh orchardist Murray Miller has "jazzed up" the range of fruit grown on his property, with 9000 Jazz apple trees complementing his summerfruit plantings.

A career in medicine beckons Alexandra's latest international champion.

Maudie Wilson has been to many a wedding in her 106 years, but said the nuptials yesterday of her great-granddaughter were "the icing on the cake".

The sheep on Barry Becker's Idaburn farm take little notice of top-dressing planes taking off and landing in their midst but might soon have regular appearances by a DC-3 to contend with.

Lake Dunstan weed control, postponed at the start of summer, is likely to be carried out at the end of next month.